Kahama Rural District is one of the five districts of the Shinyanga Region of Tanzania . Its administrative centre is the town of Kahama . The district consists of two separate parts, divided by Kahama Urban District . The area to the northeast is Msalala District , while the part to the southwest is Ushetu Council .
3-592: According to the 2012 Tanzania National Census, the population of the Kahama Rural District was 523,802. Paved Trunk road T3 from Morogoro to the Rwanda border passes through Kahama Rural District from east to west. There is a train station and a dry port at the town of Isaka , on the stretch of Mwanza railway line going from Tabora to Shinyanga . As of 2012, Kahama Rural District was administratively divided into 35 wards . Isaka Isaka
6-477: A sub-port of Dar es Salaam. Road transport companies can collect containers coming from overseas at Isaka and clear customs there, and deliver containers going overseas to the same location. Isaka also handles containers for the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo . In 2017, a new station on the standard gauge railway is proposed. In 2006, China offered funds to carry out feasibility studies to extend
9-560: Is a small town and station on the narrow-gauge Mwanza railway line of Tanzania which connects to the seaport of Dar es Salaam . It is located in Kahama Rural District of Shinyanga Region . In the 1980s a dry port was established there to serve the landlocked countries of Burundi and Rwanda , since Isaka is on a highway, now paved, running 610 km from the Rwandan capital, Kigali . The dry port functions as
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